The rise of Lawrence Bishnoi and India’s global organized crime syndicate
Sidhu Moose Wala was one of the biggest music stars in the world to come out of the Punjabi music industry. The 28-year-old’s gritty, gunslinging lyrics redefined Indian hip-hop, making him popular across India and the South Asian diaspora. He collaborated with other international artists, including Nigerian singer Burna Boy and British rapper Stefflon Don. The rapper once told an interviewer that he was inspired by Tupac Shakur. Sadly, he would resemble Shakur more than he hoped. On a warm summer evening in 2022, Moose Wala took his black SUV for a spin on the dusty roads outside his village in Punjab ...
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Acting legend enhances lengthy Mob movie resume with ‘The Irishman’
Screen legend Robert De Niro, with a long list of classic Mob movies to his credit, has a lead role…
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The Black Sox Scandal 100 years later
It was unseasonably hot at Cincinnati’s Redland Field for the debut game of the 1919 World Series. For the first…
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Mob TV shows, movies put New York on center stage
When it comes to Mob movies and television shows, New York is in the spotlight again. Two television series focused…
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Murder of Gambino boss triggered flawed theories
The evening of March 13, 2019, the relative calm of a residential neighborhood on Staten Island in New York City…
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Organized Crime Roundup: Mobs killed 1 million from 2000-2017, big Mafia takedown in Italy and more
Criminals kill far more people than do armed conflicts and terrorist attacks put together, and organized crime groups and street…
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Mob fixer Johnny Rosselli is back in the spotlight
“Strategist.” That word on Johnny Rosselli’s business card summed up his role as a Mob fixer whose colorful adult life,…
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Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar spent seven years on Forbes list of world’s richest
In the summer of 1989, the world’s most wanted drug lord had narrowly averted assassination, challenged extradition treaties, dared the…
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